The essay by Eric Lui, “notes of a native speaker” spoke about his experiences growing up as an Asian American male in the united states. Growing up, He had to face stereotypes and tried to overcome them all as time went on, so much he later felt he lost his identity of who he really was. He says in the essay “here are some ways you can say that I am white:” and then follows with a list of things that most Caucasian people do or wear on a everyday basis that he now does regularly. Things like wearing khakis or even being married to a white woman were on his list. He mentions this list because now people consider Eric to be a “Honorary White” because of his achievements and hobbies. During his time as a kid, he would have problems hooking up with girls around him or hanging out with certain people because of his Asian background. They would just see him as my “Asian friend” or as a math wiz. He hated that he went through this and time and time again he tried fighting the stereotypes of being Asian. He did things like taking his bowl hair cut style (the average hairstyle of a Asian boy) and cut it all off into a buzz cut and he later says, he was “playing the orchestra but also joined the wrestling team, winning science prizes but also editing the school paper”. He called himself the “renaissance boy” but only was seen as a “Asian overachiever”. The struggles Lui went through in his essay takes you step by step into how hard it is to create your own identity in a would where your just a representative of your ethnic group and the risks that come with trying to rid yourself from that.

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“Notes of a NativeSpeaker” Summary
In 1998, Eric Liu wrote a book about his struggle with acculturation titled “The Accidental Asian”. A chapter within the book called “Notes of a NativeSpeaker” depicts an essay written by Liu which fully describes his struggles with race and how he overcame them. Eric Liu is an American born Taiwanese Asian. His parents immigrated to the United States before he was born and in so, gave him a mixed cultural background. He started becoming a writer after attending Yale University and graduating from Harvard Law School. In his “Notes of a NativeSpeaker” author Eric Liu argues that as he was “becoming white” he was achieving, learning the ways of the upper middle class and distancing himself from radicals of any hue. He has assimilated and in turn put himself into the profile of the “banana”.
To begin, Liu opens his essay with a brief list of reasons as to why people can consider him to be white. One example from his list is that he eats “gourmet greens” (Liu 1). He goes on to state how he has reached a new status George in America. White people call him an “honorary white” (Liu 2), while fellow Asian people call him a “banana” (Liu 2), in that he is yellow (Asian) on the outside and white on the inside. Liu believes that assimilation has been “fixed in whiteness” (Liu...

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...INTRODUCTION
In this task I will talk about my research and analysis on English native speaker’s pronunciation, which can be a useful tool to understand the rules adhered to it. The consistencies and inconsistencies among the speaker, the account of them and the reasons why they do happen will be observed in this analysis. I asked six nativespeakers to read aloud some sentences. Five of them were American and one was Canadian. They were told that all of them had nonsense words.
Analysis of findings
The following charts show the different pronunciations given to the target words.
The numbers 1 to 5 reefer to American interviewees. The number 6 reefers to a Canadian one. Number 5* reefers to a person who lived in The USA for 20 years but he was born in Mexico City. “Spanish speakers are accustomed to bundling consonants and vowels into successive syllables and pronouncing them all equally distinctly, equally loudly and equally long” (Brown 1977) In case 5 the sentences were read a bit flat , probably due to Brown´s observation.
ANALYSIS
Sentence 1
The word pratted was pronounced the same by 5 out of the 6 interviewees.
The word bicked was pronounced the same by 3 out of the 6 interviewees.
The word rathed was inconsistently pronounced since it had 5 different pronunciations.
Sentence 2
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...James Baldwin, an american writer for his novels on racial and perosnal identity
focus on civil rights struggles in the united states during the civil rights
movement. Notes of a native son, written in the 1940's to the eraly 1950's allows
the readers to understand baldwins first hand experiences during this movement,
where he faces the consequences of racial descrimination. throughout the novel,
baldwin explores the most obvious actions of sexual and racial descriminations
in western societys. during the 20th century, there were many inevitable tensions
between african americans and whites. the psychological effects of racism is a
stressful struggle for non-whites. it has the potential to effect the well being of an
individual. for example, while in new jersey at the american diner, baldwin was
turned away from service because of his color. he felt extreme exclusion and
resentment from the white society. walking back to the streets gave baldwin an
overwhelmed feeling as the whites walked next to him. after being turned away
for a second time, he then turns his aggression out by throwing a mug and
shattering a mirror. he is then beaten severely. another example of
psychologicall effects of racism is how baldwins father was unable to
communicate with his family and people in the nieghborhood. this is due to built
up anger and frustration inside him from growing up in such a...